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The whole point of the new system is that there will always be Ranked available. I don't think there will be actual brakes between the seasons.

Unfortunately, I expect the same. But the current Bronze is nice casual gameplay for good rewards. I hope they just nerf the doubloons, not the steel.

I agree with you in everything, but the rewards in Bronze being crap. The 2.400 steel and 1.200 Doubloons for the season in Bronze are just really convenient to get. While in the old system it was possible to get more steel per game, it was much more frustrating and exhausting to grind through in a relatively short time frame. Sure, in the old system you could also just get R5 and earn even more steel per game without much effort. But I think over the year you can get more steel with the new system in comparison to that. So for casual Ranked play I wouldn't consider the rewards bad.

Zao has DD dispersion, so at close or medium range you will probably not notice it indeed. For long range HE spam it could be noticeable though...

Just like trying to let the fans decide what the football trainer should do, it's basically impossible. Doesn't change the fact that they are not addressing some very common dislikes in the playerbase though...

Make your own WoWs then - with Blackjack and Hookers... As for the subject of this thread: all the OP has achieved in my eyes, is making a fool of himself with that childish request to the moderators. If you want to make a point, this is not the way to do it.

If you have all ships, it doesn't roll a ship anymore. The only way to get compensation is to get a remaining ship in multiple containers before opening them.

I would consider Lenin then. It's not only extremely good at punishing broadsides, it can also be super aggressive.

First week 9 games in Enterprise, this week 11. Stats dropped significantly with all the steamrolls this week.

Level of play in Bronze got even worse though - lost two games this time because of ridiculous steamrolls. Wasn't as bad last week.

I'll see you with my Enterprise in Bronze mate...

The point was always that without Divs it is no fun and "just a grind" - that's it.

You missed the point. No divs is why Ranked will never be more than a grind.

Problem is it doesn't have divisions and divisions are more fun in general...

While the rewards per year are similar, you will need to play a lot more games at the same winrate to get all of them in the new system.

Classic noob trap. Don't crap your pants and stick with the HE...

Why do you think a lot of people (including me) stayed in Bronze... :) You only get the rewards for one league each Sprint, meaning that Bronze will give you 400 vs. 600 steel compared to Gold each Sprint, for just 10% of the effort.

Two MM-brackets for Random battles. For Ranked, I think the progression through leagues is fine as it is.

There are so many bad players and so few good players though, that a good player would get worse team mates in the vast majority of cases. To prevent stomps, they should just separate the human vegetables from the rest of the population - two MM-brackets would be enough.

Exactly. The better solution would be to split the playerbase into two or three MM brackets (let the human bots play apart from the normal people at least). And this is apparently what the qualification seems to do in some cases...

That has nothing to do with matchmaking though. The whole idea of "skill-based matchmaking" is completely pathetic and would not work. What's supposed to get people of a (somewhat) similar skill level together, is actually the progression through the leagues, but the OP here cannot accept that he is at the bottom of that.

What do you want the matchmaking to do ??? Mirror the playerskill on both teams, so everybody gets 50% winrate? Will that solve your problem of being unable to get 4 wins in a row?

Worked, thx for the hint.

I think staying in Silver is actually the sweet spot for easy rewards. But I will also stay in Bronze because I enjoy T8.

Leo, I said you can get Yahagi compensation for free, without spending doubloons on Hizen. That means you will get the 4k anyway. So you are not spending 1k on Hizen, you are spending 5k (instead of just keeping the 4k).